Stewart v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Campbell v. People (1895), Hanson v. Neal (1908)
28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But fraud belongs to the original jurisdiction, always exercised by a court of equity, and constitutes its ‘most ancient foundation; and such jurisdiction is not ousted because a remedy exists at law for the jurisdictional powers formerly possessed by that court, still continue unaffected by the enlargement which is taking place in the functions of the courts of law; and will not be extinguished by anything short of direct and positive prohibitory enactment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.